The space crew survive the Earth after the Russian rocket fails

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The space crew survive the Earth after the Russian rocket fails







BAIKONUR COSMODROME, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - A Russian cosmonaut and an astronaut from the United States were safe on Thursday after a Soyuz rocket bound for the International Space Station missed two minutes after takeoff in Kazakhstan. led to a dramatic emergency landing. 

The crew of two men, the Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin and the American Nick Hague, landed unharmed in the steppe of the Kazakh desert when the rescue teams ran to reach them, according to the US space agency EE. UU And the Russian space agency Roscosmos. 

The accident occurred when the first and second stages of a Russian rocket separated shortly after launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in the Soviet era of Kazakhstan. 

NASA said the Soyuz capsule carrying Ovchinin and Hague separated from the malfunction of the Russian rocket and sank 31 miles (50 km) to the surface, with parachutes that helped reduce its speed. A cloud of sand stirred as the capsule landed after what NASA called a steep 34-minute ballistic descent. 

The video from inside the capsule showed the two men shaken at the moment the fault occurred, with their arms and legs shaking. You can hear Ovchinin saying: "It was a quick flight". 

The photographs published by Roscosmos after the rescue showed the two men smiling and relaxing on the sofas of a city near their landing site while undergoing medical examinations. A photograph posted on Twitter by NASA showed Ovchinin and Hague hugging their families after being transported back to the Baikonur site. 

Rescue teams rushed to the scene to retrieve them from their landing site, including paratroopers, helicopters and all-terrain vehicles, NASA said.  

NASA has relied on Russian rockets to transport astronauts to the space station since the United States withdrew its space shuttle program in 2011, although the agency has announced plans for a test flight with two astronauts in a SpaceX commercial rocket on next April. 

Space is an area of ​​cooperation between the United States and Russia at a time of difficult relationships. When asked about the setback, President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House that he "did not care" that American astronauts had to rely on Russia to enter space. 

The mishap on Thursday was the first serious launch problem experienced by a Soyuz manned space mission since 1983, when a crew escaped shortly before the explosion of a launch pad. 

"CREW HAS BEEN SAVED" 

Moscow immediately suspended all manned space launches, the RIA news agency reported, while Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said he ordered the creation of a state commission to investigate what went wrong. The Russian Investigation Committee said it opened a criminal investigation into the matter. 

"The rescue services have been working since the first second of the accident," Rogozin wrote on Twitter. "The MS-Soyuz emergency rescue systems worked without problems. The crew has been saved. " 

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the most important thing was that the two men were alive.  

The next refueling mission for the space station had been scheduled for late October from Baikonur, but the new investigation could delay it. 









A view shows the Soyuz capsule carrying American astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin, after he made an emergency landing after a failure of his rocket boosters, near the city of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan, on October 11, 2018. Federal Air Transport Agency "Rosaviation" / Brochure through REUTERS. 



NASA officials must now decide how or if to maintain a US presence in the $ 100 billion orbital research laboratory. 

"The fact that this crew did not reach orbit, we feel bad for them, but we are confident that our Russian colleagues will discover what is happening and we hope to see Nick and Alexei soon in orbit in the space station soon," said Kenny Todd, operations integration manager for NASA's International Space Station. 

Hague and Ovchinin were scheduled to join the current crew of the station crew, which includes the American Serena Aunon-Chancellor.  

"We have many things planned for the rest of the fall and winter, and that is being re-evaluated," Sam Scimemi, director of NASA's International Space Station, told Reuters. "We have resources until next year for this team, so there is no concern about resources on board." 

Interfax quoted a source as saying that the crash meant that the three people aboard the space station, a German and a Russian besides the American, would remain there until at least January. They had to return to Earth in December. 

Unmanned rocket launches of Soyuz could also be suspended, Interfax said. 

When visiting Kazakhstan for the first time as administrator of NASA, Jim Bridenstine witnessed the launch on Thursday and promised a "thorough investigation" on the mishap. 

"I am grateful that everyone is safe," said Bridenstine in a statement. 









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Now it is likely that questions will be asked about Russia's space program. In August, a hole appeared in a Soyuz capsule attached to the ISS that caused a brief loss of air pressure and had to be repaired. Rogozin has said that it could have been done deliberately by someone during the fabrication or while the ship was in space. 

Last November, Roscosmos lost contact with a newly launched meteorological satellite after it took off from Russia's new Vostochny cosmodrome in the Far East. 





Report of Olzhas Auyezov in Kazakhstan and Christian Lowe, Tom Balmforth, Polina Nikolskaya, Polina Ivanova, Polina Devitt in Moscow; Additional reporting by Joey Roulette in Orlando, Florida; Written by Andrew Osborn; Edited by Richard Balmforth and Will Dunham





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